Basic, Never Boring
When you think about the birth of your children, would you describe labor as peaceful, relaxing, or comfortable? What about words like traumatic, excruciating, or intense? Did you go into labor scared or anxious? Or brave and confident? When I asked fellow moms to describe their birth and labor in a few words they used…
“If a woman doesn’t look like a goddess during labor, then someone isn’t treating her right.” Ina May Gaskin You want to make God laugh? Tell him your plans. My plans were all focused on my career and to building a house. I wanted to have kids after the house was built. For Spring Break,…
Tomorrow, we celebrate Thanksgiving. We will likely gather around a table filled with food, surrounded by our large extended family, immediate family, or friends who’ve become family. So, what better time to reflect on all of the things for which we are grateful. We asked out contributors to share a little bit about what they…
Are you brave enough to face the crowds on Black Friday? If you’re like me, you train all year long for this day, as if this were the Super Bowl. Black Friday has been a tradition for my mom and aunts for over 15 years. I have many memories of being a kid and stealthily…
Happy Halloween, everyone, from the Ur Basic Mom team! In honor of the most fun (well maybe second most fun) holiday for kids, we’ve asked our contributors to share their best Halloween costumes, EVER. Check out the Ur Basic Mom team’s best Halloween costumes… in no particular order: Annie- Ur Basic ‘Pooh’ Mom My mom…
Chocolate Makes Everyone Feel Better Birth demonstrates how incredibly strong women are. Postpartum reveals how extremely vulnerable women are. I did not expect the postpartum period to be as difficult as it was for me. I expected sleepless nights, but the emotional roller coaster of my brain transforming into a mother shocked my system. In…
I felt like a fish circling around a tank, as I rhythmically patted and bounced my baby along the perimeter of my house to fall asleep for a nap. Eventually, the baby fell asleep with a side lying feeding. I scrolled through Facebook events near me on my phone. The only thing that popped up…